Golf-club



UNITED STATES ALFRED J. CAMPBELL, OF ROCHESTER NEW YORK.

GOLF-CLUB.

-- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 19, 1920.

Application filed February 11, 1920. Serial No. 358,004.

To all whom it may concern:

Be'it known that I, ALFRED J. CAMPBELL, of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Golf- Clubs; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and to the reference characters marked thereon.

My present invention relates to golf clubs, particularly'of the class of drivers, brassies, bafiies, etc., having a broad head of light material such as wood or fiber and has for its objects an improved construction, whereby not only are the various parts so arranged and coordinated that the weights are properly distributed with reference to the line of flight of the ball but the lighter portion of the head is strengthened and the parts may be readily assembled and held rigidly in proper position. To these and 7 other ends the invention consists in certain and constructions hereinafter improvements pointed described, and the novel features out in the appended claims.

In the drawings: v Figure 1 is'a perspective view of a golf club head embodying my improvements.

Fig. 2 is a similar view of the portion constructed of wood or fiber.

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section on the line a: -w of Fig. 1, showing in dotted lines the manner of uniting the parts.

Fig. 4 is a horizontal section on the line y-y of Fig. 3, and

Fig. 5 is a bottom plan view. Similar, reference numerals in figures indicate similar parts.

The club head to which the shaft 1 is at tached in the usual or any suitable manner, bonsists of a section '2 of wood or similar light material, partially encircled by a narrow band 3 of metal, such as brass, embodying a striking face 4, to contact with the ball, a sole section 5 and an upward extension 6 at the rear side of the head, provlded with an a erture in which fits a weight or plug 13 0 lead or other metal, all of said metal parts being in the proposed lme of flight .of the ball when struck by the club. The lighter section 2 is of the general shape of an ordinary driver head, provided with ,a recess 7 in its striking face, somewhat wider at the top than at the bottom, and the the several sole is provided with a narrow recess or groove 8, connecting at the front with the recess 7, and at. the rear with a verticall extending recess or groove 9, and extend ing transversely into the head is a recess 10.

The striking face or plate 4 of the b and apertures to receive pins or screws 11, to-

assist in securing the plate in position with larger aperture 12, in line with the recess 10 in the wooden section, in which the metal weight 13 is fitted.

In assembling the parts, the metal band I is placed in position with the plate 4 in its recess 7 and the sole portion in the groove 8, then while firmly held in a vise, the rear extension 6 is bent from the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3 to that shown in full lines in said figure and forced by hammering or otherwise into the groove 9, and temporarily or permanently held by the pins or screws 11. The weight 13 is formed by melted lead or similar metal poured through the aperture 12 into the recess 10, in the section 1, and extends out flush with the outer side of the plate or band, thus firmly uniting the parts. 7

This construction effectually binds the fibers of the lighter or wooden section an prevents its splitting, and as all the heavy or them in order that the parts be held firmly while the molten metal is being poured.

I claim as my invention:

1. A golf club embodying a head, comprising a section of light material, provided with a recess in its face, wider at the top than at the bottom and a recess in its rear side in line with said first mentioned recess, a continuous band of heavier material provided with a striking face plate-fitting the face recess, extending across'the lower side of the section and up the rear side thereof and provided with a recess in' line 15 the with the face recess and a separate weight extending through said aperture and into the recess in the first mentioned section.

2. A golf club embodying a head comprising a section of light material provided with recesses in its face and also in its rear side in line therewith, and a groove in its 10 er side communicating at its end with s d recesses, a continuous band of heavier material, provided with a striking face plate fitting the face recess and a portion fitting ower groove, extending across the rear recess and provided with an aperture therein and a separate weight extending through said aperture and into the recess in the lighter section.

3.A golf club comprising a broad, flat head of relatively light material such as Wood,'a relatively narrow reinforcing band of metal extending transversely across the lower face of the head, having an integral striking plate at the front and an upwardly extending portion at the rear, provided with an aperture and a separate weighted plug extending through said aperture and into the head in line with the strikin late,

ALFRED J. CAMI B LL. 

